Should boys and girls have separate classes in school?
By seabeauty
@seabeauty (1480)
United States
September 1, 2008 1:03pm CST
Would you send your son to an all boys school and your daughter to an all girls school?
I heard that boys and girls have different learning styles for instance boys are more hands on and can't sit still and pay attention too long. They get bored easily so a different teaching approach is need for males.
Boys also when around girls feel pressured to behave a certain way around girls so they don't do so well in a co-ed setting.
A girl could sit through story time and can just sit and be patient and quiet in class.
I wish there were separate schools for boys and girls so that both my daughter and my two sons will both have an advantage in learning and have good grades.
From what I understand boys are falling behind girls even in math. My feeling is being around other boys will help improve their grades tremendously.
What do you all say?
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6 responses
@klaudine (3650)
• Indonesia
1 Sep 08
Well.. my sisters are sent to all-girls school and I am not. But that has nothing to do with either academic or social life for both of them. the difference is only on how they would teach the students. It is because they have different receptance of teaching styles. I don't know much about teaching, but I do know based on my own experience...
@seabeauty (1480)
• United States
2 Sep 08
Do you like being in a co ed school or would you rather have gone to the school your sisters are going to?
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@klaudine (3650)
• Indonesia
2 Sep 08
Well... I wouldn't regret studying in my school back then. My sister is 21 and she never had a date. I think in same-gender school, they have lack socialization with the opposite s3x, so they are not able to implement them after they are graduated. Now my mom's worried that she would never get married lol
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
3 Sep 08
I don't see any reason they should. They need to get used to working with each other b/c when they enter the job world they won't be seperated. I also think that alot of the classes girls take like home ec, child development and things like that guys should take too. Likewise I think girls should have to take things like auto shop. It's just for practical purposes but it does teach them to be more self sufficient.
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@seabeauty (1480)
• United States
3 Sep 08
Oh I never even thought of that. that is true, girls need to take auto shop so they dont have to depend on a guy to check the oil and all that.
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
3 Sep 08
Also so boys don't have to depend on girls to cook for them, wash or mend their cloths, change a diaper or feed a baby. All of my brothers can run a household if they need to and I can check fluids and change a tire on a car. My Mom made sure of that LOL
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@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
23 Sep 08
Looking back on my school life I wish my parents had sent me to an all boys school, I think I would have done so much better, walked away with far higher grades and would have enjoyed school more, I was bullied by girls at school believe it or not and girls can be far crueler than boys, I think my education suffered because of the bullying and the teachers were not much use either. If I had children I would far prefer separate classes, if I had sons then they would go to an all boy school and girls to an all girls school, that is my preference.
@Myrrdin (3599)
• Canada
5 Sep 08
I often waver on this. While it is obvious that segregated classes like this improves grades and such, I believe that it does considerable damage to the social development of children, and it increases the gender gap by encouraging the belief that women and men are fundamentally different. Encouraging such beliefs is dangerous to say the least. While it is really the parents responsibility, not the schools, to develop the social skills of a child, in reality it is difficult at best for a parent to do so when the child spends so much time at school.
@Myrrdin (3599)
• Canada
6 Sep 08
true but what does that teach about the real world. Women and men are not separated in the real world, I am not sure they should be in school either. Dances and such would only be occasional, it would not teach each how to interact with the other, it would in fact widen the gender gap even further.
@insaneduck9 (836)
• United States
1 Sep 08
What's so bad about having boys and girls in the same class? That's what makes a class so unique.
If boys and girls are in seperate classes', there would be less males and females being just "friends" and more relationships. It is true that boys focus on girls during class and I can't deny I was one of them but that's a boy being a boy and you shouldn't change that.
@seabeauty (1480)
• United States
2 Sep 08
Nothing wrong with it it's just that some boys and some girls learn better with the segregated schooling.
@seabeauty (1480)
• United States
2 Sep 08
Boys could make friends with other boys. What if a boy or girl was struggling in a co ed school would you opt for the segregated school then?
